NSA to release a free reverse engineering tool

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-to-release-a-free-reverse-engineering-tool/

By Catalin Cimpanu
ZDNet News
January 5, 2019

The US National Security Agency will release a free reverse engineering tool at
the upcoming RSA security conference that will be held at the start of March, in
San Francisco.

The software's name is GHIDRA and in technical terms, is a disassembler, a piece
of software that breaks down executable files into assembly code that can then
be analyzed by humans.

The NSA developed GHIDRA at the start of the 2000s, and for the past few years,
it's been sharing it with other US government agencies that have cyber teams who
need to look at the inner workings of malware strains or suspicious software.

GHIDRA's existence was never a state secret, but the rest of the world learned
about it in March 2017 when WikiLeaks published Vault7, a collection of internal
documentation files that were allegedly stolen from the CIA's internal network.
Those documents showed that the CIA was one of the agencies that had access to
the tool.

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